Daniel Clowes Quotes

Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out.

The real power of comics is writing as you draw.

Comics don't work without the visuals, obviously.

Writing and drawing comics for the sheer joy of it - that's true bliss.

I love print comics.

It's not movies and it's not "fine art." The beauty of a comic is that it's clear, direct communication. My work is getting simpler and more cartoony because I'm much more interested in communication now than in any illustrative value.

I was a voracious reader and I could never understand why comics were of any less merit or importance than any other way of writing. I think the thing that keeps me with comics is there's still so much to be done. There's still this huge unplowed field, this huge unexplored wilderness, and as long as I can keep doing new things and coming up with new things, I will.

When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

There's a creative freedom to comics, and a fulfillment I get out of panel layouts and storytelling that is hard for me to get anywhere else.

And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say.

Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form.

Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.

Comics as art. I do comics as comics, and my opportunity to tell stories. Simple. Basic. Let the characters have the excitement, not the package. That's where I come from.

My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling.

Comics have always been storyboards.

It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing.

Comics are not theatre - there's a very important difference in that the reader controls the page. You can linger on a page of comics as long as you want. You can read and go forward and then move back; you can reread, in one sitting or at your leisure. You can take as much time as you want to take in that story.

I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.

Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much.

Comics are a wonderful form. You can do so much with it.

I love written books and novels, but I really love graphic novels and comic books!

I started out as a novelist, and I think novels have gotten a little stiff, a little repetitive, and the energy in comics was much more appealing.

I really, really, really love writing comics.

People underestimate the complexity of comic books.